Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding

• Main Author: Krajewska, Marta Anna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Production management.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.

The freight forwarding market has become extremely demanding for the professional carriers in a road transport. Apart from decreasing prices and increasing competition, freight forwarders have to cope with the fact that demands fluctuate on a short-term basis and that fast adjustments to the constan...

Table of Contents:

• Integrated operational transportation planning
• Integrated operational transportation planning in practice
• Integrated operational transportation planning in theory
• Integrated operational transportation planning in a profit centre
• Solving the integrated operational transportation planning problem
• Long-term issues for integrated operational transportation planning
• Collaborative planning
• Collaboration in practice
• Collaboration in theory
• Modeling collaboration of profit centers
• Verification of collaboration profitability
• Conclusions.